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The thing with these RW parties across the world is that they have no politics at all, they only have soundbites and cliches that keep their base salivating.  Its popular, entertainment politics without any substance.  Look back at Trumps 4 years, he essentially passed on bill, a bunch of tax cuts that expire in a couple of years anyway, everything else he did was antagonistic or calculated to just motivate the base!!

I did see today that there was a House primary and Trumps chosen candidate was beaten by a more traditional Republican, that is a good sign.

I can still recall when you predicted a couple of years ago that civil unrest could ensue if Trump's Presidency was finally curtailed - it happened late on at the Capitol, but it was prophetic.
And re Johnson Jim, we can all see that this Brit govt is comprised of charlatans who are indeed very similar in the way they are undermining true democracy and effectively lying with sheer impunity. It is fascism in full view and knowing full well they can get away with it as Johnson's govt has this massive majority govt in place - I must say I applaud that Labour MP, Dawn Butler, who last week slammed into Johnson and his serial lying, but then put down by an anachronistic parliamentary system that doesn't punish the real offender(s)!! In reality, what did she achieve? Nothing IMO!! Parliamentary bill after parliamentary bill is being passed by this govt eroding human rights, democratic rights, journalists' access to info that indicts such an authoritarian Brit govt and also trying to impinge on the restricted power of the devolved countries with all kindsa sneaky tactics to force their extreme Brexit ideology on the populace, withholding monies that should go directly to said devolved govt administrations and again doing with impunity, definitely not the so called "equal partner" that these Brexit morons brazenly preach now and again.